Trips down memory lane

[Alba]

Anyone else remember the comeback of the yo-yo in the mid 90's?
I was in year 8 at school. I don't think it lasted too long.
I also remember when I was in school older people used to say that school days would be the best of your life, and I thought they were nuts. Pretty spot on I think. Wish I was smart enough to appreciate the good times when they happen.

Yup! My Mum was a tight arse though, and our yo-yo's came from Go-Lo!!!!!!!

My Dad used to always say that "these are the best years of your life, one day you're gonna look back and wonder where it all went." Of course, I thought that he had no idea what he was talking about. I would say the same thing to my kid, if I had one!

 

[Rhino_NQ]

anyone remember attaching basketball cards to the spokes of your bike?

 

[Dani]

just had a flashback to a year 6 disco when bandanas were hot
and i thought i was king shit because i add a black one with batman logos all over it

I'm wearing a bandana today

 

[urban eel]

I bought one yesterday. So ner. But I'm sure mine is for a different purpose

 

[Eelementary]

I bought one yesterday. So ner. But I'm sure mine is for a different purpose

Yup - easier to clean than a sock.

 

[urban eel]

PMSL. but no.a chamois is better for that

 

[DirtyHarry]

Growing up in the 70’s was less complex than today

The music back then was so much better than today

Holding hands at 14 was better than getting older & having sex & getting involved with complex girls in messy relationships. I wanted to grow up too quickly.

Being cheated on was like being stabbed in the heart a thousand times. I still remember the pain; I lay awake at night & struggled to cope. It was 1985.

The one girl I really loved I never touched. I was infatuated with her from 13 – 17. We talked a lot at school but I didn’t have the courage to ask her out. Over 30 years later I still think about her.

Collecting records was way cooler than listening to I-tunes

Using jumpers for goals & kicking a ball around was better than computer games

Fawlty Towers was better than every other comedy show since

I wasted my schooling, I drank too much too early, I did other stuff I shouldn’t have done. I am not proud.

I now live a very long way from where I grew up, don’t have any contact with my old friends. Sometimes I use Google maps & go back to the old haunts, play some songs from my youth on you tube & reflect. Don’t know why I do it. Don’t think it’s a good thing.

Music is my connection to the past. The Beatles take me back to my home; back to my mum & dad; back to innocence

Life is passing very quickly

I miss my parents

 

[Eelementary]

PMSL. but no.a chamois is better for that

I should give that a go - you know, to keep the fledgling chamois industry alive...:sarcasm:

 

[Eelementary]

Growing up in the 70?s was less complex than today

The music back then was so much better than today

Holding hands at 14 was better than getting older & having sex & getting involved with complex girls in messy relationships. I wanted to grow up too quickly.

Being cheated on was like being stabbed in the heart a thousand times. I still remember the pain; I lay awake at night & struggled to cope. It was 1985.

The one girl I really loved I never touched. I was infatuated with her from 13 ? 17. We talked a lot at school but I didn?t have the courage to ask her out. Over 30 years later I still think about her.

Collecting records was way cooler than listening to I-tunes

Using jumpers for goals & kicking a ball around was better than computer games

Fawlty Towers was better than every other comedy show since

I wasted my schooling, I drank too much too early, I did other stuff I shouldn?t have done. I am not proud.

I now live a very long way from where I grew up, don?t have any contact with my old friends. Sometimes I use Google maps & go back to the old haunts, play some songs from my youth on you tube & reflect. Don?t know why I do it. Don?t think it?s a good thing.

Music is my connection to the past. The Beatles take me back to my home; back to my mum & dad; back to innocence

Life is passing very quickly

I miss my parents

That line gets thrown about so often these days, and it's just not true.

 

[thorson1987]

just had a flashback to a year 6 disco when bandanas were hot
and i thought i was king shit because i add a black one with batman logos all over it

Only bandana I ever bought were the Canteen ones to raise money for kids with cancer.

Of course, at that age I was really into 2Pac so would wear it the same way he did. Which works for a pasty white kid.

Anyone else remember the comeback of the yo-yo in the mid 90's?
I was in year 8 at school. I don't think it lasted too long.
I also remember when I was in school older people used to say that school days would be the best of your life, and I thought they were nuts. Pretty spot on I think. Wish I was smart enough to appreciate the good times when they happen.

Primary school, went marbles, yo-yos, yo-ho diablo then tazos.

Would only last a few weeks before they were banned due to them causing fights.

I never understood why people would say they wished they were back at school until i started working full time.

anyone remember attaching basketball cards to the spokes of your bike?

Hahaha that was awesome.

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[Zoidberg]

Growing up in the 70?s was less complex than today

The music back then was so much better than today

Holding hands at 14 was better than getting older & having sex & getting involved with complex girls in messy relationships. I wanted to grow up too quickly.

Being cheated on was like being stabbed in the heart a thousand times. I still remember the pain; I lay awake at night & struggled to cope. It was 1985.

The one girl I really loved I never touched. I was infatuated with her from 13 ? 17. We talked a lot at school but I didn?t have the courage to ask her out. Over 30 years later I still think about her.

Collecting records was way cooler than listening to I-tunes

Using jumpers for goals & kicking a ball around was better than computer games

Fawlty Towers was better than every other comedy show since

I wasted my schooling, I drank too much too early, I did other stuff I shouldn?t have done. I am not proud.

I now live a very long way from where I grew up, don?t have any contact with my old friends. Sometimes I use Google maps & go back to the old haunts, play some songs from my youth on you tube & reflect. Don?t know why I do it. Don?t think it?s a good thing.

Music is my connection to the past. The Beatles take me back to my home; back to my mum & dad; back to innocence

Life is passing very quickly

I miss my parents

Appreciate your parents while they're still around.
I never really saw my dad as anything more than "my dad", and what kind of father he was to me. but in the years since my dad passed away, I've come to think about what kind of man he was. He wasn't the best father ever but he was a good man who, unfortunately, had a few vices like us all.

I lost him when I was 23 and had not really matured into the man I am now. I would love to be able to have talks with him now. Not just because he's gone, but because I now understand more about what his life, as a man not a parent, was like.

On a side note, he would've been my age when my older brother was born (who is 4 years older than I), now that's scary.

 

[adamkungl]

i do miss playing junior footy, considering i wasnt a very popular kid and kept to myself alot and didnt have many friends the few i did have was because of footy. Having the feeling of being seen and thought of higher then other people around me and hearing the cheers after i just belted somone or ran over the top of them was always the highlight of my week.

One of the greatest memories i have is winning the U/18's GF for runaway bay, would have been one of the best games ive ever played and just left path of destruction behind me. Managed to barge over for the first try from a tap 30m out dragging half the team with me and when we were down by 2 with only a few minutes left and a bomb went up from us that we had all planned to sprint after when there was a stoppage half way through the set.

Everyone most likely remembers the shot crocker put on stewert when he caught the bomb in the GF a few years ago (well brett probably doesnt lol). Picture that but with darius boyd catching it for burleigh. Dead set nailed him and dislodged the ball that got scooped up and after a few passes and ducking and weaving from our 5/8 we scored in the corner and won. Being carred around on the boys shoulders and what was a home GF for us a decent sized crowd cheering me on was just a surreal feeling and the most accepted i'd ever felt. Something that i had and have since always struggled with.

While this was happening they blasted U2s "A beautiful day" on the speaker system and i always smile when i hear it, the next night the cowboys did the impossible and hammered the dogs in their first ever semi final and i recieved a letter to go trial for South Sydneys Sg Ball team. Was a pretty surreal couple of days

Did you really steamroll Darius Boyd? i didn't misread that somehow? u r My hero.

Well, I try....

Actually when I play fullback I pretty much run it back like Karmichael Hunt. I just suck at tackling. Like, horribly.

Same! :lol: I was working my arse off to improve my game before I tore my ACL.. it was gonna be my last year and if I still sucked I'd stick to touch and oztag. But I tore it in April. So im seriously considering giving it one more shot next year

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Did you really steamroll Darius Boyd? i didn't misread that somehow? u r My hero.

absolutely belted him, he was actually pretty mediocre and struggling to make junior rep teams up until he he fixed his knees and had a break out year in U/18's and made the aussie schoolboys side.

That same season i did a gordon tallis impersonation on him but actually picked up him and hurled him like a midget toss over the sideline and he ended up in the concrete benches that were made like dugouts without a cover on them at our home field.

Also knocked steve michaels out cold twice, had my ac joint broken by sam moa, got steam rolled by junior sau at a rep carnivale, had rangi chase threatened to drop me which ended up getting broken up by benji and helped carry a very drunken blake leary to bed (he was only 13 at the time, his older brother is my age and i played footy with him and snuck out to a house party after a friday night game with us).

Think thats all

 

[adamkungl]

I played half a game with Jason Clarke...

 

[Eelementary]

Did you really steamroll Darius Boyd? i didn't misread that somehow? u r My hero.



Same! :lol: I was working my arse off to improve my game before I tore my ACL.. it was gonna be my last year and if I still sucked I'd stick to touch and oztag. But I tore it in April. So im seriously considering giving it one more shot next year

Do it, mang! I reckon you'll kill it.